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Kyocera Document Solutions America Expands ECOSYS Lineup  March 13, 2014– KYOCERA Document Solutions America has extended its ECOSYS lineup with three new color MFPs, one black & white MFP and two new black-and-white desktop printers. Each of the compact devices highlight Read More

GreatAmerica Completes 13th Term Securitization Feb. 28, 2014 – GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation completed its 13th term securitization today in the amount of $423.5 million. The proceeds will pay off various borrowed amounts, resulting in unused credit facilities in Read More

A better year in 2014 for everyone right?  I still feel the economy here in the Northeast is not what is was and am wondering if we’ll ever get back to where we were in the mid 2000’s.  I’ve been in this crazy business for 33 years and not once was I ever faced Read More

If you were at Toshiba’s LEAD dealer meeting last fall in Orlando you’re well aware that arguably the biggest trend confronting Toshiba, but everybody in the office imaging industry in 2014 and beyond is declining print volumes. What is Toshiba as a manufacturer and dealers and Read More

Over the past four weeks we’ve been presenting the highlights of the year from a wide variety of companies serving the office imaging space from hardware manufacturers, to solutions and services organizations, to the consulting and analyst communities. Taken together these Read More

Sharp Introduces Cloud Portal Office Nov. 11, 2013 – Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), has introduced Cloud Portal Office, a software solution designed for an increasingly mobile workforce where companies need to share information while maintaining control Read More

GreatAmerica Announces Managed IT Business Planning  Nov. 14, 2013 – GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation and Collabrance LLC have announced the rollout of a Managed Information Technology (IT) Navigator business planning seminar for office equipment and Read More

I just returned from Orlando where I spent time at the Sharp and Toshiba dealer meetings. I’ll be presenting more detailed coverage on each of those meetings in next week’s issue of The Week in Imaging, but for now a brief observation. Each of these companies shared a vision that Read More

SurgeX Launches Defender Series MultiPak Nov. 6, 2013 – ESP/SurgeX has announced the Defender Series MultiPak, a Multi-Stage surge protector and power conditioner specifically designed to safeguard digital signage arrays. Available in four (SX-DS-154) and six (SX-DS-156) outlet Read More

I’m a big fan of industry events. That goes back to my earliest days in the industry in the mid to late 1980’s. I still long for that one-stop networking experience of the old NOMDA and BTA shows.  You don’t really get that anymore, at least not the way it was in the ‘80s. Read More

Sometimes you owe it to yourself to just get away. Don’t know why I feel guilty about taking five work days off to go on vacation, but I did. I was even planning on writing this column while away, but some way, somehow, I talked myself out of it and decided to focus on the Read More

On Monday, June 24, Toshiba America Business Solutions held a Webinar for analysts and press to announce under non-disclosure the e-STUDIO306LP with the e-Studio RD30 eraser unit and erasable toner co-developed with Pilot, the pen company. It’s not like this product was a huge Read More

This week Paul Kotan of Southwest Equipment Brokers, a copier wholesaler based in Tucson, AZ, shares what’s hot and what’s not of late when it comes to what his independent dealer customers are looking for. What’s hot? Kotan: Anything with low usage and low meters. Ricoh, Sharp, Read More

Why any of us are surprised anymore with the annual personnel changes in the office technology space is beyond me, but the e-mail that press and analysts received on May 1 from Toshiba President & CEO Mark Mathews stating that he was leaving Toshiba on May 3 after 20 years Read More

Spend any amount of time around office equipment dealers and there’s bound to be a fair amount of moaning and complaining about business, their manufacturers, customers, new technologies, economic conditions, and market changes. It’s not a knock. That’s just the way it is. Read More